Black Roses: Odes Celebrating Powerful Black WomenThe poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living pays tribute to all Black women by focusing on visionaries and leaders who are making history right now, including Ava DuVernay, Janelle Monae, Kamala Harris, Misty Copeland, Nikole Hannah Jones, Robin Roberts, Roxane Gay, and Simone Biles with this compilation of celebratory odes featuring full color illustrations by Melissa Koby.

Menakem argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy

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I left a few victims of my own

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A must-have for fans of Rosie Revere

and has been featured on Comedy Central's The Daily Show and CNN's Cuomo Prime Time

When Briseis's aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated estate in rural New York

but hate isn't one of them

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"in the lineage of great works by Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie" (The New York Times)

or you need to process a microaggression

White Americans suffer their own secondary trauma as well